Truth lies below: A case report and literature review of typical appearing polyps yet with an atypical diagnosis

Table 1 Literature review of case reports of monomorphic epitheliotropic intestinal T-cell lymphoma

Author	Year and Location	Patient Age and Gender	Presenting symptom	History of celiac disease?	Treatment	Prognosis after diagnosis
Chen et al[9]	2016, Singapore	60 y/o, Male	Abdominal pain	No	CHOP + IVE/MTX + autologous stem cell transplant	Deceased at 2 wk
Ishibashi et al[10]	2016, Japan	60 y/o, Male	Persistent diarrhea and weight loss	No	CHASE and autologous stem cell transplant	Deceased at 3 yr
Ishibashi et al[10]	2016, Japan	40 y/o, Female	Diarrhea and weight loss	Not stated	THP-COP	Deceased at 2 mo
Ishibashi et al[10]	2016, Japan	50 y/o, Female	Abdominal distention	Not stated	CHOP + high dose MTX/cytarabine + allogeneic stem cell transplant	Deceased at 9 mo
Ishibashi et al[10]	2016, Japan	70 y/o, Male	Nausea	Not stated	SMILE	Deceased at 9 mo
Aiempanakit et al[11]	2017, Thialand	67 y/o, Male	Chronic diarrhea and weight loss	Not stated	Anthracycline based chemotherapy	Deceased at 2 mo
Antoniadou et al[12]	2016, Greece	76 y/o, Male	Severe dyspnea	Not stated	Unable to tolerate treatment and deceased	Deceased at Day 5
Aoyama et al[13]	2018, Japan	83 y/o, Male	Fever and diarrhea	Not stated	CHOP followed by DeVIC	Deceased yet no timeframe stated
Pan et al[14]	2018, Taiwan	76 y/o, Female	Intermittent abdominal pain	No	CEOP	Deceased at 3.7 mo

y/o = years-old; CHOP = cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone; IVE = ifosfamide, vincristine, and etoposide; MTX = methotrexate; CHASE = cyclophosphamide, cytarabine, etoposide, and dexamethasone; THP-COP = pirarubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisolone; SMILE = dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfamide, L-asparaginase, and etoposide; DeVIC = etoposide, doxorubicin, oncovin, and prednisolone; CEOP = cyclophosphamide, epirubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone.